Arms and explosives – including semtex – seized by police in Dublin
Semtex explosives once belonging to Provisional IRA should have been destroyed in decommissioning processIrish police have delivered a big blow to republican dissidents with a seizure of arms and...
View ArticleOmagh bombing suspect on life support after falling off roof
Seamus McKenna, whose name emerged in civil action against the Real IRA after the Ireland atrocity, falls off a school roofOne of the suspected Real IRA bombers behind the 1998 Omagh atrocity is on a...
View ArticleReal IRA bomb plotter Larry Keane found murdered in Ireland
Dissident republican who was jailed for 10 years for trying to bring huge bomb into UK found with head injuries in AthyA Real IRA member who tried to bomb Britain with an explosive device larger than...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland murder victim's brother under death threat
Daniel Allen, whose brother Andrew was murdered by republican vigilantes earlier this year, is told his life is also under threatThe brother of a Derry man murdered by republican vigilantes earlier...
View ArticleDavid Black: 'new IRA' group claims it murdered prison officer
Republican terror alliance issues statement linking Black's murder to conditions inside Maghaberry prisonA republican terror alliance styling itself as a new IRA has claimed it murdered Northern...
View ArticleMan, 22, arrested over murder of Catholic police recruit
Counter terror police detain Co Tyrone man and a lorry in Milton Keynes over booby trap bomb death of Ronan KerrDetectives investigating the murder by paramilitaries of a Catholic police recruit in...
View ArticleOmagh bombing retrial begins at Belfast high court
Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly are contesting civil court decision that found them liable for 1998 atrocityTwo men sued by the relatives of those killed in the Omagh bomb massacre, who claimed the pair...
View ArticleOmagh bombing suspects fail to turn up at retrial
Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly, who were found liable for the 1998 atrocity in a civil court, won a retrial but refused to attendThe failure of two men accused of playing a central role in the Real IRA...
View ArticleMassereene barracks murder conviction quashed
Belfast court rules verdict unsafe on Brian Shivers, only man convicted over Real IRA murders of two British soldiers in AntrimThe only man convicted of killing two soldiers at a military base in...
View ArticleCross-border co-operation in Northern Ireland 'is saving lives'
Theresa Villiers says working together has helped counter threat from dissident republicans ahead of Anglo-Irish meetingCross-border security co-operation is saving lives in the face of an upsurge in...
View ArticleTwo found liable for Omagh bombing
Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly were retried after they and two others were held liable in civil actionTwo Irish republicans have been found liable for the 1998 Omagh bombing in a civil action against the...
View ArticleIrish court rejects Real IRA founder's appeal over terror conviction
Director of public prosecutions argued that Michael McKevitt's challenge was bound to failIreland's court of criminal appeal has struck out an application by the founder of the Real IRA to overturn his...
View ArticleMan cleared of murdering two soldiers at Massereene barracks
Brian Shivers acquitted at retrial after quashing of original conviction for Ulster shootingsThe only man to be convicted of the Real IRA killing of two soldiers just hours before they were to be...
View ArticleRuairi O'Bradaigh, former IRA chief of staff, dies aged 80
One of Irish republicanism's most longstanding hardliners spent second half of his life denouncing former comrades as selloutsRuairi O'Bradaigh, a former IRA chief of staff and one of Irish...
View ArticleArms and explosives – including semtex – seized by police in Dublin
Semtex explosives once belonging to Provisional IRA should have been destroyed in decommissioning processIrish police have delivered a big blow to republican dissidents with a seizure of arms and...
View ArticleOmagh bombing suspect on life support after falling off roof
Seamus McKenna, whose name emerged in civil action against the Real IRA after the Ireland atrocity, falls off a school roofOne of the suspected Real IRA bombers behind the 1998 Omagh atrocity is on a...
View ArticleReal IRA bomb plotter Larry Keane found murdered in Ireland
Dissident republican who was jailed for 10 years for trying to bring huge bomb into UK found with head injuries in AthyA Real IRA member who tried to bomb Britain with an explosive device larger than...
View ArticleGrand National bomb plotter Larry Keane buried in County Kildare
Real IRA activist was convicted in 1998 of possessing massive explosives and was found murdered in July this yearA Real IRA activist who tried to bomb the Grand National in 1998 has been buried in his...
View ArticleIntelligence on Omagh bomb 'withheld from police'
Security forces had two agents in the Real IRA but did not share that information with Northern Ireland officers, report claimsMI5, the FBI and Garda special branch "starved" police in Northern Ireland...
View ArticleOmagh bombing: Amnesty backs families' call for cross-border inquiry
Human rights organisation supports all-Ireland investigation after report reveals intelligence failings before 1998 attackAmnesty International has backed the families of the Omagh bomb victims in...
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